Show ENQUIST DECIDES FIGHTING czar long despatch telling of defeat anc flight for j manila V st petersburg jiant I 1 0 the emperor ha received a loog telegram from admiral ded at juite S th of the battle of which took place between tsu kolaci admiral entrot says there was a with a arc sli south wind anda cry togge horizon A squadron appeared at la p m flo lie north and engaged us in L tactic conflict not permitting us 10 pass them in the direction of every time our squadron turned toward the mortn the superior ot the japanese enabled them to ou s while at the same time they concentrated their ire tin our leading the jaan ase squadron conah lod of nine battle slilla and cruisers and ano battleship separately trying to take our ships between two fires these tactics continued throughout th battle and greatly hampered our transports fifty minutes after the opening of the battle our battleship was sunk add the battles alp disabled soon afterwards the battleship chias Soua was ion fire losing her and funnels and becoming diac bled our squadron turned to protect the kniaz but the borodine borodino Bo resumed her place in the column which was now headed by tha battleship alexander III the japanese compelled our squadron to move in a circle around the tran aorta md torpedo boats while the japanese moed in an cx perlor circle owing to the inferior speed of our diesels it was difficult to escape this position but before seasel our squadron resumed its to ue not hward at this ume one of our torpedo boats near the kniaz hoisted a signal that tho command had been transferred to rear admiral ne 0 agopoff the alexander III then left the column severely damaged the borodine borodino Bo which was then at the head of the column received alio alre and at sunset after firing her last ahot sank the number ofa japanese torpedo boats was about sixt my cruisers in the japanese cruisers suffered greatly by the large calibre of the japanese projectiles at highl the japanese torpedo boat attacks commenced results of which I 1 am unable to report owing to my inability to distinguish between the russian and japanese vessels several times 1 l endeavored to escape to the northward but was always re attacked andaas obliged to turn to the southward on the morning of may 28 not knowing the whereabouts of the remainder of our squadron having ben greatly damaged 1 decided he ships then under my command should make for manila H the conduct of my crew k aboe praise lit russians escape london june 10 the tokio correspondent spon dent of the daily telegraph says that some of the japanese Japa torpedo boat destroyers which were chasing the russian cruiser were back the Ja allowing the russian ship to escape |